For air travel, can you leave your MBP in its sleeve and send it through x-ray in a separate bin or must you remove it from the sleeve? I just picked up an incase neoprene sleeve and the wrapping says something like airport security friendly. To me that implies that it can stay in its sleeve.

Makes sense. The purpose of taking the laptops out of the bag (other than a TSA type approved bag) is to give the screeners an unobstucted view of the innards. I would think a sleeve accomplishes that especially if there aren't sleeve pockets stuffed with adapters and other gear. Below is from TSA website:

"To help streamline the security process and better protect laptops, TSA recently encouraged manufacturers to design bags that will produce a clear and unobstructed image of the laptop when undergoing X-ray screening. A design that meets this objective will enable TSA to allow laptops to remain in bags for screening.

TSA screens laptops to see if the electronics have been tampered with. Transportation Security Officers know what the inside of a computer should look like, and they can recognize irregularities. This is why they need an unobstructed view as the item moves through the X-ray machine.

Purchasing one of these bags will not guarantee that you can leave your laptop in your bag for screening. If a Transportation Security Officer finds that the bag does not present a clear and distinct image of the laptop separate from the rest of the bag, the laptop must be screened separately.

There are laptop bag styles currently on the market, such as laptop-only sleeves, that have the potential to present a clear X-ray image of the laptop if they are correctly packed. However, most current laptop bags will not present a clear X-ray image and should not be sent through the X-ray with the laptop inside."
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There's some laptop bags you can get that are checkpoint safe. They unzip in the center and lay flat...your computer is by itself in one half, all your cables and stuff are in the other. That way they see just your computer without any obstructions, and you shouldn't have to remove it from the bag. I have one, and it works out great.

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